Shell Script Contracts

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Shell Script skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Shell Script over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 235 277
Rank change year-on-year -54 +42 +4
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 325 627 862
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 1.12% 0.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.51% 3.28% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 429 546
10th Percentile £332 £405 £410
25th Percentile £400 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.03% +0.83% +13.68%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £625
90th Percentile £710 £712 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £536 £500
% change year-on-year -14.18% +7.20% +21.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 3
10th Percentile £59.73 £45.00 £43.25
25th Percentile £64.19 £50.31 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.56 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% +26.79% -10.58%
75th Percentile £67.69 £78.00 £58.13
90th Percentile £76.50 £86.25 £60.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.38 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.97% +22.62% -5.58%

All Programming Languages
UK

Shell Script is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,939 19,124 31,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.05% 34.12% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,176 13,793 23,095
10th Percentile £350 £388 £388
25th Percentile £425 £461 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £660
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 433 488
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.60 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.95 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Shell Script.

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Shell Script.

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -52 264 £515 -6.36% 74
London +5 162 £525 -4.55% 39
UK excluding London -51 143 £460 -14.18% 38
Work from Home -34 86 £525 - 29
South East +3 50 £401 -27.18% 11
Scotland +7 41 £425 -17.07% 1
North of England +8 24 £475 -9.48% 3
South West -13 13 £550 - 10
North West +5 11 £528 +5.60% 2
Yorkshire +20 9 £475 -2.56% 1
Midlands -11 8 £520 -3.70% 4
East Midlands +14 7 £520 +22.35% 3
East of England -8 5 £625 +38.89% 8
North East +8 4 - -
Wales +17 3 £538 -2.27% 1
West Midlands -22 1 £420 -22.22% 1

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (6.15%) Confluence
2 19 (5.85%) OpenStack
3 12 (3.69%) Apache
3 12 (3.69%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.69%) nginx
4 10 (3.08%) JBoss
5 9 (2.77%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.92%) WildFly
7 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.77%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.31%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 80 (24.62%) AWS
2 49 (15.08%) Azure
3 27 (8.31%) Amazon S3
4 26 (8.00%) Serverless
5 18 (5.54%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (5.54%) GitHub
5 18 (5.54%) OpenShift
6 15 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (4.00%) Slack
9 11 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (2.46%) Azure AKS
11 8 (2.46%) GCP
11 8 (2.46%) WhatsApp
12 7 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.85%) IaaS
14 5 (1.54%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (1.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.85%) Firewall
2 16 (4.92%) DNS
3 9 (2.77%) SSL
4 8 (2.46%) Network Security
5 6 (1.85%) AMQP
5 6 (1.85%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.54%) HTTP
6 5 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.23%) 5G
7 4 (1.23%) Diameter Protocol
7 4 (1.23%) Internet
7 4 (1.23%) LTE
7 4 (1.23%) SAN
7 4 (1.23%) Wireless
8 2 (0.62%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.31%) DSL
9 1 (0.31%) RNC
9 1 (0.31%) SGSN
9 1 (0.31%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.62%) Oracle Database
2 29 (8.92%) Relational Database
3 28 (8.62%) MongoDB
3 28 (8.62%) SQL Server
4 23 (7.08%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (6.15%) MySQL
6 18 (5.54%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (4.92%) RDBMS
8 13 (4.00%) NoSQL
9 10 (3.08%) Big Data
10 9 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (2.77%) Apache Hive
10 9 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (2.46%) Oracle Database 12c
11 8 (2.46%) PowerCenter
11 8 (2.46%) Sybase ASE
11 8 (2.46%) Tableau
12 7 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.85%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 79 (24.31%) Jenkins
2 62 (19.08%) Git
3 52 (16.00%) JIRA
4 23 (7.08%) GitLab
5 17 (5.23%) Maven
6 16 (4.92%) JMeter
7 14 (4.31%) Subversion
8 12 (3.69%) Gradle
9 8 (2.46%) Selenium
10 7 (2.15%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.15%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.85%) WebDriver
12 5 (1.54%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.23%) Bitbucket
13 4 (1.23%) Gatling
13 4 (1.23%) JUnit
13 4 (1.23%) TestRail
13 4 (1.23%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.92%) Ant
15 2 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
General
1 86 (26.46%) Finance
2 67 (20.62%) Social Skills
3 52 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.85%) Banking
5 29 (8.92%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.38%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.46%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.54%) Back Office
8 5 (1.54%) Billing
9 4 (1.23%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.23%) Automotive
9 4 (1.23%) Front Office
10 3 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.62%) Law
11 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.31%) Advertising
12 1 (0.31%) Electronics
12 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.31%) Military
Job Titles
1 72 (22.15%) Developer
2 27 (8.31%) Applications Support
3 24 (7.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (7.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 22 (6.77%) Analyst
6 18 (5.54%) Python Engineer
6 18 (5.54%) Senior
6 18 (5.54%) Site Engineer
7 16 (4.92%) DBA
7 16 (4.92%) Test Engineer
8 14 (4.31%) Architect
8 14 (4.31%) Lead
9 13 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
9 13 (4.00%) Support Engineer
10 12 (3.69%) Oracle DBA
11 11 (3.38%) Administrator
11 11 (3.38%) Applications Specialist
11 11 (3.38%) Applications Support Specialist
11 11 (3.38%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.38%) Kafka
2 21 (6.46%) RabbitMQ
3 20 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
3 20 (6.15%) HTML
4 19 (5.85%) CSS
5 18 (5.54%) Spring
6 14 (4.31%) React
6 14 (4.31%) RESTful
7 13 (4.00%) Node.js
8 12 (3.69%) Middleware
9 11 (3.38%) AWS CDK
10 10 (3.08%) JSON
11 9 (2.77%) IBM Integration Bus
11 9 (2.77%) REST
11 9 (2.77%) YAML
12 7 (2.15%) .NET
12 7 (2.15%) FastAPI
12 7 (2.15%) HTML5
12 7 (2.15%) Web Services
13 6 (1.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.62%) Linux Command Line
2 23 (7.08%) Onboarding
3 22 (6.77%) Algorithms
4 18 (5.54%) Data Structures
5 16 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.08%) Driving Licence
7 10 (3.08%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.85%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.85%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.54%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.23%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.23%) Device Driver
10 4 (1.23%) Equities
10 4 (1.23%) Replication
10 4 (1.23%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 151 (46.46%) Linux
2 132 (40.62%) Unix
3 54 (16.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 43 (13.23%) Windows
5 20 (6.15%) CentOS
6 17 (5.23%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.15%) VMS
8 6 (1.85%) AIX
8 6 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.54%) Mac OS X
10 4 (1.23%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.92%) Debian
11 3 (0.92%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.92%) Windows 2000
11 3 (0.92%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.62%) Solaris
12 2 (0.62%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (28.92%) CI/CD
2 91 (28.00%) DevOps
3 88 (27.08%) Agile
4 69 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (12.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (11.69%) Test Automation
7 36 (11.08%) Microservices
8 34 (10.46%) ETL
9 31 (9.54%) Containerisation
10 29 (8.92%) SDLC
11 28 (8.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 27 (8.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (8.31%) Scrum
13 23 (7.08%) Task Automation
14 22 (6.77%) Computer Science
14 22 (6.77%) TDD
15 21 (6.46%) Machine Learning
15 21 (6.46%) Observability
16 19 (5.85%) Continuous Integration
17 18 (5.54%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 155 (47.69%) Python
2 99 (30.46%) Java
3 90 (27.69%) SQL
4 45 (13.85%) Bash
5 40 (12.31%) PowerShell
6 34 (10.46%) C++
7 29 (8.92%) C
8 25 (7.69%) JavaScript
9 22 (6.77%) PL/SQL
10 21 (6.46%) Perl
11 17 (5.23%) Go
12 13 (4.00%) Groovy
13 11 (3.38%) C#
13 11 (3.38%) Scala
13 11 (3.38%) TypeScript
14 9 (2.77%) Ruby
15 7 (2.15%) Assembly Language
15 7 (2.15%) Search Processing Language
15 7 (2.15%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.85%) ProC
Qualifications
1 57 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 44 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.46%) Degree
4 18 (5.54%) Master's Degree
5 12 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.15%) PhD
7 6 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.85%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.23%) HNC
8 4 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.23%) RHCE
9 3 (0.92%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.62%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.62%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.62%) ISEB
10 2 (0.62%) OSCP
11 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.31%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.31%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.15%) PCI DSS
2 6 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.23%) JTAG
3 4 (1.23%) QA
4 2 (0.62%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.31%) NCSC
5 1 (0.31%) SEPA
5 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (20.00%) Docker
2 16 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 13 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 12 (3.69%) Oracle RAC
5 10 (3.08%) Active Directory
6 6 (1.85%) vSphere
7 5 (1.54%) HDFS
8 4 (1.23%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (1.23%) Firmware
9 2 (0.62%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.31%) KVM
10 1 (0.31%) NFS
10 1 (0.31%) Snort
10 1 (0.31%) Varnish
10 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 90 (27.69%) Ansible
2 85 (26.15%) Kubernetes
3 54 (16.62%) Prometheus
4 52 (16.00%) Grafana
5 47 (14.46%) Terraform
6 18 (5.54%) Puppet
7 17 (5.23%) Kibana
8 15 (4.62%) logstash
9 12 (3.69%) Consul
9 12 (3.69%) Data Guard
10 11 (3.38%) Netcool
10 11 (3.38%) Red Hat Satellite
11 10 (3.08%) Packer
12 8 (2.46%) Progress Chef
13 7 (2.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 6 (1.85%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (1.85%) yum
15 5 (1.54%) Control-M
15 5 (1.54%) Hadoop YARN
15 5 (1.54%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 96 (29.54%) Oracle
2 53 (16.31%) Red Hat
3 29 (8.92%) Microsoft
4 22 (6.77%) IBM
5 21 (6.46%) VMware
6 17 (5.23%) Informatica
7 15 (4.62%) Splunk
8 13 (4.00%) Amdocs
9 12 (3.69%) SaltStack
10 11 (3.38%) Google
11 10 (3.08%) SEEBURGER
11 10 (3.08%) Temenos
12 9 (2.77%) Sybase
13 6 (1.85%) HP
14 5 (1.54%) Confluent
14 5 (1.54%) Veritas
15 4 (1.23%) CA Agile Central
15 4 (1.23%) Murex
16 3 (0.92%) Cadence
16 3 (0.92%) Juniper